Citizen Advocacy works in collaboration with Canada Revenue Agency to offer income tax preparation for low income families and individuals in Windsor-Essex County. P2P funding helps cover the costs that volunteers incur including fuel and office supplies.
2013 Ontario Budget – May 9 Blog Post by MSW intern Jessica MacIntyre The Liberal party released a potential 2013 budget for Ontario on Thursday, May 2. Several sources, such as Poverty Free Ontario (PFO) and the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC), believe that the proposed budget is progressive in that it has finally acknowledged the severe financial hardship that single adults on social assistance face. Indeed, OW and ODSP rates will increase by 1% as of September or October, and single adults without dependents on OW will receive an … Continue reading
County councillors agreed to a plan Wednesday that could see $1,762,930 invested this year in active transportation infrastructure. Read more here.
The free “Self Care To Care” workshop is happening on Friday, May 24, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at The Salvation Army Church located at 46 Orangewood Blvd in Chatham. Social Inclusion, a working group of the Prosperity Roundtable, together with community partners is offering this free training workshop which includes the following topics: Lillian Gallant (Voices Against Poverty, Windsor): Toolkit for Building Positive Relationships Kristy Jacobs (The Social Inclusion working group): Customer Service: Using the “Fish Philosophy” to help to make your organization ‘World Class’ and Compassion Fatigue: … Continue reading
This week (May 6 to 11, 2013) is Hunger Awareness Week. There are members of our community who are hungry. Due to underemployment, unemployment, insufficient funding for social assistance recipients and the rising cost of food, Windsor and Essex County residents are struggling to put food on the table. Pathway to Potential has partnered with the Downtown Mission, Windsor Essex Community Garden Collective, Youth and Family Resource Network, Unemployed Help Centre, Southwestern Ontario Gleaners, Food Matters, Windsor-Essex County Health Unit and Windsor/Essex County Food Bank Association to create a campaign … Continue reading
Jessica MacIntyre, MSW Intern: A Brief Introduction Jessica, a first year MSW student at the University of Windsor, is very excited to be completing her Foundation Field Practicum with Pathway to Potential. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, but spent most of her childhood growing up in a rural area outside of St. Thomas, Ontario, a city whose predominant poverty inspired her early interest in advocacy and social justice issues. However, she discovered social work late in post-secondary education, completing her undergraduate degree in psychology and religious studies at … Continue reading
Recently, the Government Sector has taken a key role in advocating for pedestrian and cycling facilities on the new international Detroit-Windsor bridge. P2P and partner Go For Health are supporting Brian Masse M.P. (Windsor West) in this initiative by gathering signatures that support this sustainable, healthy community initiative. It is important as it will one day connect our regional trail system (e.g. Herb Gray Parkway, CWATS, Chrysler Greenway, and local trail connections) to Michigan’s great trail system. This will allow people to actively explore our region and invite many larger, … Continue reading
On Thursday, April 18, 2013, thirty-seven community members, educators, health professionals, and social service providers attended an Understanding Poverty workshop in Leamington at the Church of St. John the Evangelist. The workshop consisted of discussions and group activities concerning: the definition, causes, types, and measures of poverty; lived experiences of people living in poverty relative to the experience of the middle class; and the intersecting barriers. We also discussed what long-term social and political changes we could implement to reduce poverty within Windsor-Essex County. Before starting the workshop, participants assessed … Continue reading
On April 15 and 16, Laura Tucker represented P2P at the annual Cities Reducing Poverty gathering to connect, network and plan for the year ahead. Over 50 other leaders from over 30 communities attended the event where we shared community updates and determined direction for the upcoming year. There were a number of ideas, outcomes, discussions and decisions brought out during the gathering. Among the topics covered, a group of leaders in the living wage movement in Canada came together over the past six months to develop a framework for … Continue reading
Blog post by Sarah Parks, April 11, 2013 On April 11, 2013 Megan Conway, the Interim Vice President Programs and Research at Pathways to Education Canada, and Maureen Thompson, a Consultant to Pathways to Education Canada, joined Windsor-Essex for a community conversation on place-based strategies for improving educational outcomes for young people. Pathways to Education helps youth in low-income communities graduate from high school and successfully transition into post-secondary education. As the presenters noted, the provincial dropout rate is in the 20-30% range, the low-income community dropout rate is in … Continue reading